Transformation4Change

Any change or transformation of significance will create people issues. New leaders will be asked to step up, jobs will be changed, new skills and capabilities must be developed, and people will be uncertain and will have concerns. Dealing with these issues on a reactive rather than on a proactive basis will impact the outcomes and success of the change. Successful change does not happen by develo...

Are you restless with your current state? Are you feeling stuck? Are you resting on the achievement of yesterday? Do you feel you have more in you and yet you seem to be stagnant. The key to addressing these questions you have been struggling with is to navigate forward and onward without allowing yourself to make excuses for your current situation or state. Navigating forward with purpose, determ...

Powerful forces are changing our world. Their impact is touching all countries, sectors, companies, and, increasingly, workers and the environment. They are also mutating in some unexpected ways and combining to create even greater impact than we expected. The word disruption is a disturbance, commotion, interruption, distraction, interference, or disorder. These words all have a negative connotat...

English philosopher James Allen wrote: “As a man thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.” Stoic and Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote: “A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.” Poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” Author Earl Nightingale said: “We become what we think about,” and Mark Twain wrote: “Life consists ma...

Inspirational leadership refers to your ability to influence those around you positively and motivate others to achieve success. It provides your team members with the opportunity to develop their ambition based on your actions and attitudes. An inspirational leader will develop talent and provide employees with opportunities to grow. These leaders are willing to take a risk on a person to stretch...

Being weighed down from all the things and others is stealing your future and growth one disappointment and hurt at a time. I feel your pain because I have had my own share of pain, disappointments, hurt, mistreatment, and others. The question is can you change the discourse. Absolutely yes you can. You have the inner resources and the help of Almighty God to help you sidestep all the issues, dram...

James Allen about peace said “Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom” Peace stealers are busy doing what they do best and that is stealing your peace in your most unguarded moments. Personally, my peace has been stolen repeatedly until I figured out how to detect the signs before it consumes me. I’ve wasted a lot of time being held hostage to some ridiculous stuff. It’s my duty...

The Late Dr. Robert Schuler said, “The Me I see Is the Me I will become” When you look in the mirror, what do you see? A miracle about to happen, an influencer, a change maker, a thought leader. Do you see yourself as contributing to your world? An author of a best seller? A successful business owner in the making, a song writer, or a successful person in general? What you see is what you become....

Angela Duckworth and her colleagues research revealed the importance of Mental Toughness. They concluded in one of their findings by saying “Our hypothesis that grit is essential to high achievement evolved during interviews with professionals in investment banking, painting, journalism, academia, medicine, and law. Asked what quality distinguishes star performers in their respective fields, these...

Mental Toughness is "The ability to work hard and respond resiliently to failure and adversity; the inner quality that enables individuals to work hard and stick to their long-term passions and goals." Mentally tough athletes are more consistent than others. They don’t miss workouts. They don’t miss assignments. They always have their teammates back. Mentally tough leaders are more consi...

Developing your mental muscles is a great way to enhance your cognitive abilities and improve your overall mental well-being. What is mental toughness? According to Wikipedia, Mental toughness is a measure of individual resilience and confidence that may predict success in sport, education, and the workplace. In recent decades, the term has been commonly used by coaches, sport psychologists, sport...

Research shows that most efforts to fundamentally change the trajectory of an organization fail. Regardless of the size of your business or industry, transformation is vital for you to remain relevant in the marketplace. Businesses must make fundamental changes to their operations so they can deliver better value to customers. It is also about organizational cultural change. Companies need to chal...

The business landscape is changing rapidly. From AI and automation to big data and digital disruption, there are so many disrupters impacting business. In less than a decade, workplaces may look very different. With that in mind, we can expect leadership to shift dramatically too. So, with the landscape for businesses changing so rapidly, what can we expect the future leaders to look like? Further...

A Global Crisis Survey, conducted by PwC in 2021 involving 2,814 business leaders, 70% responded that the crisis had a major negative impact on their businesses. On the other hand, only 20% saw a positive impact on their organization. Effective management and crisis leadership were some of the potential ways in which organizations showed resilience to the looming crisis. The real test of leadershi...

To successfully influence change throughout your organization, you must create an environment that promotes change. You create the readiness for change by removing all the roadblocks that inhibit successful change. Now I have a confession to make. I have an addiction that I have been trying to shake off for years. I have gone for therapy several times and it has not worked. I am still trying to ge...

Leadership serves several functions crucial to the success of the organization. Effective leaders provide clarity of purpose, motivate, and guide the organization to realize its mission. Regardless of your position, understanding your role as a leader can help you contribute more meaningfully to the accomplishment of your company's or organizational objectives. Great leadership is about inspir...

Our dissatisfaction with the status quo drives us and gives us energy to be more, do more and give more. A lot of leaders have settled with the status quo and have spent years doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result. Some of these leaders have convinced themselves that the organizational culture will not change and therefore they don’t do anything. One of the major hindera...

Jason Richmond said “You already have a culture, even if you haven’t consciously developed it. Culture is also what happens when no one pays attention, and then you pay the price.” He continued “Sustaining culture change is particularly challenging because we ask people to alter deeply ingrained and sometimes unconscious behaviors and habits.” I have read great strategies and business plans. As a...

Do you respect yourself and respect others? Leaders who use swear words, demean people, talk down the team, are egocentric, and disrespectful will not go very far. They may get away with it for a while but not for very long. Build trust and respect among your team, and there will be no challenge the team cannot solve. Trust is earned through hard work and actions, not simply good intentions. A hig...

The performance of your people and organization is contingent on the quality of your culture. Organizational culture facilitates the achievement of your organization’s strategic objectives, attracts the right employees, and has mechanism to jettison those employees who may not fit in. Organizational culture often mirrors the organization’s core values and directly reflects the organization’s leade...

Raise Your Standards (Part 2) Raising your standards begins the process of changing the trajectory of your life, business results, relationships, family, organization, leadership journey, spiritual journey, and others. What is a standard? A standard is a model for excellence, a criterion, benchmark, touchstone, yardstick, specification, guideline, measure, or requirement. You can raise your standa...

Yvonne Ruke Akpoveta describes Change Leadership as the ability to influence and inspire action in others and respond with vision and agility during periods of growth, disruption, or uncertainty to bring about the needed change. When leaders truly lead change, when they commit the resource, when they are visible throughout the change process, when they genuinely sponsor and lead the change, result...

Raising your standards begins the process of changing the trajectory of your life, business results, relationships, family, organization, leadership journey, spiritual journey, and others. You can raise your standard for leading your team, improving your relationships, moving on the ladder of success, achievement, or career, you can raise your leadership standard, spiritual, health and wellness, b...

People can be challenging to work with sometimes and they can be a great delight as well. As a leader, you are tasked to deliver results, grow the business, achieve strategic objectives, coach, mentor, inspire your team or direct reports. These demands put pressure on you as a leader and you must keep refueling your mental tank, refresh, re-energize and rejuvenate consistency to handle the challen...

Employees are ready and willing to give the best and show up to do their best work provided you create an enabling environment that frees them to do so. Employees come to work each day with a single goal - to contribute and help the organization achieve its strategic goals and objectives. The question to you as a leader is Are you willing to help them do so? When we facilitate employees to thrive...